Drupal AI Initiative

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I spent last week at the UN in New York for Open Source Week. The AI sessions were sharp, well-attended, and full of people who have been thinking seriously about where this is all going. Ministers, engineers, researchers, cybersecurity practitioners.

A year ago, we launched the Drupal AI Initiative with a published strategy and a bet that AI would matter enormously to Drupal's future. Today the initiative spans 32 organizations and more than 50 contributors, shipping against a public 2026 roadmap.

As the work has grown, it's become clear that our AI strategy needs to cover two distinct areas. While innovation and product development remain core goals across everything we do, we are organizing our day-to-day execution into two workstreams: Inside AI, led by Christoph Breidert, and Outside AI, a new stream led by Scott Falconer. 

This blog post summarizes the key insights from the CX Decoded podcast episode featuring Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and Executive Chairman of Acquia.

In the fast-moving world of digital experience, few names carry as much weight as Dries Buytaert. As the creator of Drupal, he has spent over two decades navigating the evolution of the web. But in his latest appearance on the CX Decoded podcast, Dries issued a candid warning: AI isn’t just another tool - it is a fundamental disruption that is stress-testing every business model in its path.

We are pleased to announce that Peter Hinssen will be the keynote speaker at the Enterprise Drupal Summit Europe 2026 in Rotterdam on 28 September 2026.

Setting the stage

Peter Hinssen will open the summit with a session on how organizations deal with continuous disruption and long-term digital change — a topic he has spent decades researching, writing about, and bringing to stages around the world.